EARLY MUSIC NOW presents the ear-opening sounds of early music – performed by some of the world's finest Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque ensembles – winds, strings and voices.

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2008

Azéma & Kammen
"The Crusades in Poetry and Song—a Mirror of Our Time"
February 2 (Sa) All Saints' Episcopal Cathedral (Milwaukee)
February 3 (Su) Luther Memorial Church (Madison)

Hesperus
"Shameless Commerce—Life on the Streets and County Lanes of Renaissance England"
March 8 (Sa) UWM Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts (Milwaukee)

Renaissonics
"Beltane: The Witches' Sabbath—Renaissance Rites of Spring"
May 3 (Sa) WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE (MILWAUKEE)

2007

The Baltimore Consort
"Cupid’s Cabinet:
Amorous Chansons and Dances for Valentine’s Day"

February 3 (Sa) All Saints' Episcopal Cathedral (Milwaukee)

Tempesta di Mare
"Vivaldi da Camera"
March 10 (Sa) UWM Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts (Milwaukee)

Lionheart
"El Siglo de Oro"
April 14 (Sa) Chapel of St. Joseph Center (Milwaukee)
April 15 (Su) Luther Memorial Church (Madison)

The King's Noyse
"Festival Espańa"
The Musical Salads of Mateo Flecha (1481-1553)

October 19 (F) UWM Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts (Milwaukee)

Ensemble La Rota
"Heu, Fortuna Subdula"
French Secular Music before Machaut

November 17 (Sa) All Saints' Episcopal Cathedral (Milwaukee)
November 18 (Su) Luther Memorial Church (Madison)

San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble
"La Noche Buena"
The first Christmas music composed in the New World

December 15 (Sa) Chapel of St. Joseph Center (Milwaukee)

2006

Hargis & O'Dette
"Amour, Cruel Amour"
February 3 (F) FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (EVANSTON, IL)
February 4 (Sa) ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL
February 5 (Su) ST. PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH (MADISON)

Ex Umbris
"Melancholy: Downe in the Dumpes in Elizabethan England"
March 4 (Sa) UWM - ZELAZO PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

The Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort
"European Roots and International Flowerings"
April 8 (Sa) WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE

The Newberry Consort
"Music for Signs and Seasons"
October 7 (Sa) UWM Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts (Milwaukee)

Spiritus Collective
"Cori Spezzati e Virtuosi"
November 4 (Sa) The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Milwaukee)

The Waverly Consort
"The Christmas Story"
December 8 (F) Wisconsin Union Theater (Madison)
December 9 (Sa) The Basilica of St. Josaphat (Milwaukee)
December 10 (Su) First United Methodist Church (Evanston)

2005

Verbruggen & Galhano
"The Art of the French and German Baroque"
September 30 (F) TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH (MADISON)
October 1 (Sa) WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE

The Ivory Consort
"Music in the Land of Three Faiths"
November 5 (Sa) UWM - ZELAZO PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
November 6 (Su) UWM - ZELAZO PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

The Boston Camerata
(with the Milwaukee Choral Artists)
"A Medieval Christmas"

December 2 (F) FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (EVANSTON, IL)
December 3 (Sa) BASILICA OF ST. JOSAPHAT